How Tata Trusts and Sridhar Vembu kept the first MRI scanner built in India out of a multinational’s hands
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- A Bengaluru-based company built a full-body 1.5 tesla MRI scanner engineered and manufactured entirely in India, designed to operate without liquid helium.
- Tata Trusts and Sridhar Vembu backed the domestically built scanner and helped keep it independent of a multinational acquisition.
Why it matters: India now has a domestically engineered 1.5 tesla MRI scanner running without liquid helium — an alternative to imported imaging equipment and a rare instance where Tata Trusts and an entrepreneur actively shielded an indigenous medical device from multinational buyout pressure.
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